Kolba (Oppurg)

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Kolba
Oppurg municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 7 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 226 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : October 10, 1965
Postal code : 07381
Area code : 03647
Building in Kolba
Building in Kolba

Kolba is a district of the municipality of Oppurg in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

geography

The village of Kolba is located on the river Orla and on the federal road 281 from Gera to Saalfeld . The railway line from Gera to Saalfeld runs past the southern end of the village. The train station in Oppurg is very easy to reach for travelers from Kolba. The Kolbas district is very hilly and the soils are very different. There are sand, loess and clay sites. The meadows of the valleys are interspersed with ponds. To the north, the corridor closes a large forest area towards Langendembach .

history

Until the fall of the Thuringian Empire around 531 Germanic tribes settled the area in the Orlatal, then according to the village chronicle the Sorbs settled.

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1323.

In the Thirty Years' War Kolba was sacked. In 1848 the real burdens were abolished. An important milestone for the village was the construction of the Orlabrücke in the village. In 1912 the village was connected to electricity. In 1930 the first aqueduct was built.

In Kolba in 1923 the tenant Olga Heitsch managed the manor of Prince Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen with 190 hectares of operating area. After the Second World War it was expropriated and the land and the inventory were transferred to resettlers and poor farmers . The Positz Vorwerk existed from this time as a public property .

St. John the Baptist

In 1960 the first LPG was founded in town. Then the development of agriculture in the Orlatal took its course up to the agro-industrial association . After the reunification , the farmers reoriented themselves and founded other forms of agricultural work. After 1990 the redesign of the place began.

Attractions

  • The church of St. John the Baptist has a fortified tower with a Romanesque door, which testifies to the origin of the church in the high Middle Ages at the latest. The church was renewed around 1500 and extensively renovated in the early 18th century.
  • Positz manor

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Village Chronicle - Strong Oak Kolba ( Memento from August 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 150.
  3. ^ Jürgen Gruhle : Thuringia. ( Memento from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Black Book of Land Reform. Retrieved May 20, 2009.

Web links

Commons : Kolba  - collection of images, videos and audio files